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Subject: BASH Input Editing
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Date: 6 Jul 89 04:01:55 GMT
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Hello friends,

I just installed your great BASH on my Sun3/60 under SunOS 3.5
with only few problems in readline.c and builtins.c which 
possibly occured because I used /bin/cc and not gcc.

Now I wanted to map the editing features to my sun keyboard.
But it seems to me that I have no chance to use the multi-
character keys like R1=\E[208z, R2=\E[209z and so on.

Is it correct that I can only use 1 or 2 character sequences
in key mapping? 

Input editing is the important advantage over /bin/sh. So
if I can not use my keyboard, bash is not very useful to me.

Please tell me, that I am wrong or that you have a bash version
which allows what I want.

Thanks in advance!


With best regards,

Martin Walter

University Computing Center
Hermann-Herder-Str.10
D-7800 Freiburg i.Br.
West-Germany

    Telephon: +49 761/203-4532
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